Derek Chauvin betrayed police badge, prosecutors say in closing argument at murder trial
By Jonathan Allen
Reuters
MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - A prosecutor told the jury that former Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin betrayed his badge and murdered George Floyd in last year s deadly arrest as closing arguments began on Monday in Chauvin s trial.
Over and over again, Steve Schleicher, a prosecutor with the Minnesota attorney general s office, repeated a phrase: Nine minutes and 29 seconds, the length of time Chauvin was captured on video on May 25, 2020, kneeling on the dying Floyd s neck.
Schleicher emphasized that the jury was weighing the guilt of only one man, although their verdict will nonetheless be widely seen as a reckoning in the way the United States polices Black people.
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